When anyone mentions this masterpiece they usually make some ignorant remark about Charlton Heston not being believable as a Mexican. Apparently such people think all Mexicans resemble the ones they've seen in the US who are mostly mestizo - 60% of Mexicans are Mestizo, 30% Indian and about 10% European. Well, Mexico's ruling class is predominantly of European ethnicity, and today many are educated in the US and so they speak fluent English with an American accent. Charlton Heston is playing a man who is a member of that elite and is thus believable in the role in terms of his physical appearance and possibly even his accent. The only problem came when his character had to speak Spanish! Now there he had a problem...
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Ocean's Eleven
(2001)
When you try too hard to be cool, it's not cool!
17 January 2004
I normally like heist films but this one is a dog. The characters are all know-it-alls played by actors with an irritating "look at me I'm so cool" attitude. Soderbergh made it too stylish and self-consciously hip - in other words its not hip. And then there are the cheesy cockney lines. These are particularly embarrassing and obviously not written by a Brit. All in all quite a disappointment.
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